About the Authors

Anne Waehre

anne.waehre@medisin.uio.no

Affiliations Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Bente Halvorsen

Contributed equally to this work with: Bente Halvorsen, Arne Yndestad

Affiliations Research Institute for Internal Medicine, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Arne Yndestad

Contributed equally to this work with: Bente Halvorsen, Arne Yndestad

Affiliations Research Institute for Internal Medicine, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Cathrine Husberg

Affiliations Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway, Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Ivar Sjaastad

Affiliations Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway, Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Ståle Nygård

Affiliations Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway, Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Bioinformatics Core Facility, Institute for Medical Informatics, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway

Christen P. Dahl

Affiliations Research Institute for Internal Medicine, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

M. Shakil Ahmed

Affiliations Institute for Surgical Research, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Alexandra V. Finsen

Affiliations Research Institute for Internal Medicine, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Henrik Reims

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway

William E. Louch

Affiliations Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway, Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner

Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hanover Medical School, Hanover, Germany

Leif E. Vinge

Affiliations Research Institute for Internal Medicine, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Borghild Roald

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway

Håvard Attramadal

Affiliations Institute for Surgical Research, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Martin Lipp

Affiliation Department of Molecular Tumor Genetics and Immunogenetics, Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Lars Gullestad

Affiliations Research Institute for Internal Medicine, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Pål Aukrust

Affiliations Research Institute for Internal Medicine, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Section of Clinical Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Geir Christensen

Affiliations Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Oslo University Hospital Ullevål, Oslo, Norway, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AW GC BH AY PA. Performed the experiments: AW BH AY CH AVF HR MSA DH-K WEL. Analyzed the data: AW BH GC PA IS SN HA MSA BR HR LEV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ML. Wrote the paper: AW GC PA. Collected humane data and commented on the manuscript: CPD LG.